Cash-fare receipt-form.



No. 796,524- i PATBNTED AUG. 8, 1905. H. P. MSSEN.

CASH FARE RECEIPT FORM. APPLICATION FILED un. 16, 1905.

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CASH-FARE RECEIPT-FORM.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented.Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed March 16, 1905. Serial No. 250,432.

hands in money by passengers who have not` provided themselves withtickets.

The cash-fare receipt-form contemplated by this invention is of thatclass which comprises an auditors check to be returned by the conductorto the accounting department .of the railroad and a receipt-slip to behanded by him to the passenger, these two portions being each providedwith corresponding forms of figures, from which one or more figures willbe punched out by the conductor to indicate the amount of the farecollected.

The particular obj ect of the invention is to provide a receipt-form ofthe character described in which the passengers receipt-slip and theauditors check will be so associated with each other as to render itpractically impossible for the conductor or collector to punch the onewithout simultaneously punching the other in an exactly correspondingmanner except by so mutilating the auditors check as to render thetrickery apparent or by manipulations which cannot fail to be observedby the passenger and by any inspector who may be watching the operation.

The invention also contemplates a construction capable of being canceledby an ordinary ticket-punch and generally of such a sim le andconvenient nature that it can be easi y and expeditiously 'issuedAwithout appreciably increasing the effort or time ordinarily requiredto make such cash-fare collection and properly record the same.

To this end, therefore, the invention consists in making one portion ofthe ticket in the form of a folded sheet and the other portion of theticket in the form of an intervening leaf about which the aforesaidsheet will be folded, the edges of the two portions remote from the lineof fold being permanently bound together, so as to prevent the sheetsfrom being separated orfrom being separately manipulated until afterboth sheets have been detached from the stubs formed by their connectededges.

Preferably the folded sheet will constitute the auditors check, whichwill be returned by the conductor to the accounting department of therailroad, while the intervening leaf, about which the auditors checkisfolded, will constitute the receipt-slip which will be handed by theconductor to the passenger making the payment. In any case, however,both portions of the ticket will be provided with forms of figures fromwhich the figures indicating the amount of the fare paid, in dollars andcents, can be punched by the conductor, and these forms will be printedin eX- act register with each other on the two portions. Then owing tothe manner in which the auditors check is folded about the receipt-slipthe cancellation of the necessary figures can only be accomplished bypunching clear through the triplicate sheet formed by the two leaves ofthe auditors check and the inclosed receipt-slip, with the result thatthe cancellation of the gures intended will occur simultaneously on boththe auditors check and assengers receipt and will involve exactl y thesame figures in each case, thus insuring that the return made to theauditor and the receipt given the passenger will indicate the sameidentical amount.

In practice it is contemplated that the cash-fare receipt-formsconstructed in accordance with the present improvement will be placed inthe hands of conductors or collectors inthe shape of pads or books, ineach of which the several receipt-forms constituting the pad or bookwill be bound together by staples or the like through the stubs formingthe connected edges of the triplicate sheets, said stubs being renderedreadily divisible from the body of the sheets by perforated or otherwiseweakened lines, along which the pa er can be readily torn. Then afterthe con uctor or collector has properly punched the triplicate sheet hewill tear it off from the pad along the weakened line, leaving the stubsstill in place in the pad or binding. This will leave the folded sheetfree at one edge and permit itsleaves to be opened apart and the'passengers receipt withdrawn to be immediately handed to the passengerin whose presence the form will have been canceled, the folded sheet orauditors check being retained by the conductor and subsequentlyturned inwith his report to the accounting department of the railroad.

ln the accompanying drawings, illustrative of my invention in one form,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pad of cash-receipt orms constructedin accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showin theauditors check and passengers receipt as they appear when torn from thepad and partially separated from each other. Fig. 3 is a sectional viewshowing the manner in which the passengers receipt is folded between theleaves of the auditors stub. Fig. 4 is a transverse section takenthrough a pad of cash-fare receipt-forms, from which all but the lastform have been torn.

In said drawings, A designates a pad of cash-fare receipt-formsconstructed in accordance with the present improvement. This pad is madeup of a plurality of separate receipt-forms each consisting of a foldedsheet A and an inserted sheet A2, about which the sheet A is folded.

Each sheet A is folded along a line a, eX- tending longitudinally of thesheet midway between its opposite edges, which are then brought togetherand secured by the staples or other fastenings B of the pad. Theinserted sheet A2 is made of a width approximately equal to the width ofone of the folded leaves of the sheet A and is inserted between theseleaves and secured there at one edge by the same staples B of the pad.The connected edges of the sheets through which the staples B are passedare shown as separated from the body portion of its sheet by a weakenedline a, such as a line of perforations, along which the sheet mayreadily be torn, leaving a stub c2 still attached to the pad to preventthe other forms from becoming loosened from their binding.

The intermediate sheet A2 and at least one of the leaves of the foldedsheet A have printed upon their faces identical forms of figures A2,which exactly register with each other. These forms of figures may be ofany suitable character capable of being canceled by an ordinaryconductors punch and. capable of showing by such cancellation the amountof the cash paid. Three rows of figures are in this instance provided,indicating dimes, dollars, and cents, respectively, each row includingfigures running from "0 to 9. These figures are herein shown as printedon the face of the upper leaf a2 of the folded sheet A', which foldedsheet in this instance and desirably constitutes the auditors check andas also printed on the face of the intermediate sheet A2 in suchcorresponding location that the respective figures of the two formsregister with or lie immediately beneath each other. In connection withthese forms of figures also the sheets bear such printed matter as willidentify the purpose or which each portion is intended. The two portionsof the ticket will also be printed with the name of the railroad companyand the auditors check ordinarily with blanks in which the conductor orcollector will write the names of the stations between which thepassenger is traveling and with a blank which may be punched to indicatehalf-fare collections.

The manner of using these cash-fare receipts thus described will bereadily understood. A pad or book of the forms described will be carriedby the conductor or collector ready for use by him as occasion arises.When he receives a cash-fare from any passenger, he will separate theloose edge of the uppermost triplicate form from the remaining forms inthe pad far enough to permit of the application of his punch to the edgeof the form for the purpose of punching out the figures (dollars, dimes,and cents) indicating the amount of the fare collected. Thiscancellation will thus necessarily involve a cutting through by thepunch of the three leaves of the triplicate sheet and willsimultaneously obliterate the same-figures on both the auditors checkand the passengers receipt, at the same time leaving punch-marks a4 inthe under side or leaf a5 of the auditors check. The conductor will thentear the triplicate sheet thus canceled from the pad and when thusdetached the leaves of the outer or folded sheet can readily be openedapart, as shown in Fig. 2, to permit the passengers receipt to bewithdrawn from between them, such withdrawal being'desirably facilitatedby cutting away the edges of the folded sheet at one end to form aconcavity or notch a, through which the edge of the passenfrers receiptwill project, so that it may readi y be seized between the fingers. Thisreceipt will then at once be handed to the passenger while the auditorscheck will be retained by the conductor and returned by him with hisreport to the auditing department of the railroad.

With this improved construction of cashfare receipt-form it will beobvious that, owing to the fact that the passenger's receipt iscompletely inclosed by the auditors check, it will be practicallyimpossible for a conductor, even if so inclined, to punch the twoportions of the receipt differently. Such procedure would obviouslynecessitate either a detachment of the triplicate sheet from the padprevious'to its being punched, which operation would be readily detectedby the passenger or by any inspector observing the transaction or wouldnecessitate a previous slitting of the folded edge of the auditors checksufficient to expose the passengers receipt to the separate action ofthe punch, which slitting would prevent the auditors check from beingturned in by the conductor in an unsevered condition and with its leavesstill attached to each other, as the rules of the company will require.At the same time the construction proposed is of the simplest character,requiring no special punch or other device or mechanism for itsmanipulation and can be produced in quantities at a minimum of cost.

I claim as my invention- 1. A cash-fare receipt-form, comprising afolded portion having its edges opposite the fold bound together, and aportion inserted between the leaves of the folded portion and having oneof its edges secured between-the bound edges of said folded portion, oneof said portions bearing matter constituting it a check and the otherbearing matter constituting it a receipt, substantially as described.

2. A cash-fare receipt-form, comprising a folded portion, and anintermediate portion inserted between the leaves of the folded portion,the edges of the three portions remote from the line of fold beingprovided with stubs, and said stubs being permanently bound together soas to prevent the withdrawal of the intermediate portion except bytearing both portions loose from the stubs,

one of said portions bearing matter constituting it an auditors checkand the other bearing matter constituting it a passengers receipt,substantially as described.

3. A pad of cash-fare receipt-forms, each consisting of a folded checkand of a receipt inserted between the leaves of the folded check, thoseedges of'thefolded check and intermediate receipt remote from the lineof fold being connected to stubs, and said stubs being permanently boundtogether to form the pad and normally prevent access to the receipt,substantially as described.

4. A cash-fare receipt-form, comprising an inner sheet, and an outersheet folded around the inner sheet and secured together at its edges, aconnection between the sheets serving to normally prevent withdrawal ofthe inner sheet, and registering forms of figures on the two sheetsadapted to be simultaneously canceled by the conductors punch,substantially as described.

5. A pad of cash-fare receipt-forms, each consisting of a folded checkand of a receipt inserted between the leaves of the folded check, thoseedges of the folded check and intermediate receipt remote from the lineof fold being connected to stubs and said stubs being permanently boundtogether to form the pad and normally prevent access to the re'ceipt,and registering forms of figures on the check and receipt adapted to besimultaneously canceled by the conductors punch, substantially asdescribed.

6. A pad of cash-fare receipt-forms, each comprising a folded portionhaving its edges opposite the fold bound together, and another portioninserted and secured between the leaves of said folded portion, one ofthe portions bearing matter constituting it a check and the otherbearing matter constituting it a receipt, said portions having reistering forms of figures adapted to be simuI- taneously canceled by apunch.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 11th day ofMarch, A. D. 1905.

HARRY PHILIP MSSEN.

Witnesses:

J. BoUGHToN, ROBT. L. THoMAs.

